Aspectos técnicos da produção in vitro de embriões bovinos - revisão

Abstract

Brazilian livestock breeding is constantly growing, due to trade balance or through employment of technologies to improve results and productive indexes. Among these, stands out in vitro embryo production (IVP) in bovine cattle, which along with other reproductive techniques, is responsible for a greater expansion in Brazilian cattle breeding, so reducing generation interval, and selecting animals. Besides, IVP can generate viable products from animals that are no longer able to breed, with reproductive problems, dead or even extinct. This technique is a complex procedure, in several steps, since oocyte collection from live or slaughter animals, undergoing maturation, fertilization and laboratory culture, to classifying viable embryos and transferring them to the female receptor. Considering every benefit of this technique to brazilian agribusiness, the aim of this work was to review the process of IVP of bovine embryos from slaughterhouse ovaries.